From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmnetal Breast Cancer Movement (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

From the early 1980s, the U.S. environmental breast cancer movement has championed the goal of eradicating the disease by emphasizing the importance of reducingeven eliminating exposure to chemicals and toxins. From Pink to Green chronicles the movement's disease prevention philosophy from the beginning. Challenging the broader cultural milieu of pink ribbon symbolism and breast cancer "awareness" campaigns, this movement has grown from a handful of community-based organizations into a national entity, shaping the cultural, political, and public health landscape. Much of the activists' everyday work revolves around describing how the so called "cancer industry" downplays possible environmental links to protect their political and economic interests and they demand that the public play a role in scientific, policy, and public health decision-making to build a new framework of breast cancer prevention. From Pink to Green successfully explores the intersection between breast cancer activism and the environmental health sciences, incorporating public and scientific debates as well as policy implications to public health and environmental agendas.

from Pink To Green Chronicles The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement's Disease Prevention Philosophy From The Beginning. This Movement Has Grown From A Handful Of Community-based Organizations Into A National Entity, Shaping The Cultural, Political, And Public Health Landscape. From Pink To Green Successfully Explores The Intersection Between Breast Cancer Activism And The Environmental Health Sciences, Incorporating Public And Scientific Debates As Well As Policy Implications To Public Health And Environmental Agendas.

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journalism Professor Ley Details Breast Cancer Activism And How Research On Detection And Treatments Must Be Joined (if Not Exceeded) By “eradicating Environmental Links” To The Disease, “rais[ing] Public Awareness...[and] Pass[ing] More Stringent Environmental Regulations.” A Significant Change In Direction, But This Scholarly Treatise Might Be A Slow Go For General Readers.

From the early 1980s, the US environmental breast cancer movement has championed the goal of eradicating the disease by emphasizing the importance of reducing - even eliminating - exposure to chemicals and toxins. This work chronicles the movement's disease prevention philosophy from the beginning. A movement in the making "End the silence" From touring the streets to taking on science "We should not have to be the bodies of evidence" The cultural politics of sisterhood Toxic tours move indoors Beyond women's health Still in the making. The breast cancer movement has emphasized the importance of reducing or eliminating exposure to chemicals and toxins. The movement's disease prevention philosophy is chronicled from the beginning